Three to five million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch—the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were similar to those we will be experiencing in the upcoming decades—Earth’s climate was much warmer than today. The goal of this project is to simulate this past climate as an analogue of future warming using, for the first time, the novel Super-Parameterized Community Earth System Model (SP-CESM). Understanding and realistically simulating Pliocene climate, the closest analogue for future global warming, is critical to trusting future climate projections and to implementing climate policy solutions and adaptation strategies.
Participants
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Alexey Fedorov
Professor of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
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Harvey Weiss
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and the Environment
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Pincelli Hull
Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Juan M. Lora
Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Noah Planavsky
Earth and Planetary Sciences
